I love that the book [Paper Girls ] gets to kind of evolve and change in each era. Our third storyline is our best so far.
BRIAN K. VAUGHANAfter ten years of toiling away in Hollywood, I realized that there’s no better place for new ideas than comics.
More Brian K. Vaughan Quotes
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A comic script is basically a love letter from you to your artist.
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I like things that are weirdly imaginative and couldn’t be real, but I also like stories that are recognizable and relatable.
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I grew up in the suburbs of Cleveland in 1988 and there was just one year where suddenly all of the delivery kids that used to be boys were suddenly girls. It happened at our church too. Altar boys were suddenly altar girls.
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That was the appealing thing about comics: There literally is no budget in comics. You’re only limited by your imagination.
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Fans of my books have just been supremely nice.
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Not a word of my writing has ever been changed by another person’s hands, and I don’t think many screenwriters can say that.
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I’ve always thought of fantasy as a genre of best-case scenarios, and horror as a genre of worst-case scenarios.
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I know I’m a grumpy old man, but I’m always more delighted by readers talking about the actual comics than people talking about how eager they are to have their favorite comics be “elevated” into another medium.
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What cruel creatures men are. Our bodies tell us to love so many, but there’s room in our hearts for so few.
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After 9/11, I knew I wanted to write about power and identity and the way Americans on all sides of the political spectrum often mythologize our leaders, which are themes that the superhero genre has always handled really well.
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We’ve all seen lots of stories about a young protagonist having adventures, and usually they’re all boys, [and] there is sometimes a token female, or two.
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I genuinely am sort of an emotionally stunted man-child, so if I just write to the top of my intelligence, it sounds like a teenager.
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I’m the one who started spreading that particular factoid, about Bendis, Azz and me all being bald Brian’s from Cleveland, just to get my name mentioned in the same sentence as two much-better writers, and it’s worked like a goddamn charm.
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If a good editor will let me tell my story with the right artist, I’m happy.
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Some people are haunted by their pasts, but not my family. I mean, how can you be haunted by something that never really dies?
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